Exodus 12:1-14
The Passover
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 a“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb aaccording to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be awithout blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the afourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the atwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with aunleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but aroasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And ayou shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with ayour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. bIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For aI will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on ball the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: cI am the Lord. 13 aThe blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This day shall be afor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a bstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
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